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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #540 on: November 20, 2010, 07:52:24 PM »

Finally saw Inception.

How on earth is this a bewildering and/or complicated movie? It even ended in the simple obvious way I thought it would, when I spent the whole time waiting for some complicated surprise that would leave me guessing.

It was still pretty good though. No complaints.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #541 on: November 20, 2010, 07:56:35 PM »

Finally saw Inception.

How on earth is this a bewildering and/or complicated movie?

I hear it's because they kept changing the rules.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #542 on: November 20, 2010, 07:58:21 PM »

Not really. Every time they changed the rules Cobb explained it and the young girl even parsed the explanation for the drooler crowd.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #543 on: November 20, 2010, 08:24:27 PM »



Uuuuuuuhhh?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #544 on: November 21, 2010, 02:20:08 AM »

I don't get it either, Mongrel.
Everyone I know who saw it said they had to see it more than once to get it and it was so convoluted and complicated. Where they watching the same movie? It was that "Hey. Look at me. I'm so smart and NOT like everyone else. That's just how I roll*pops color and puts on glasses*" kind of flick. If you pay the slightest bit of attention when people talked it basically held your hand throughout the whole movie.
I was disappointed. I kept hearing "It's fantastic and smart and complex and deep!" and sadly it didn't deliver to the hype.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #545 on: November 21, 2010, 07:10:55 AM »

Well, I still liked it. Good concept, solid execution. There wasn't any terribad acting or writing. They had some fun and used some neat special effects, but used both judiciously instead of laying things on super-thick. And it was good enough not to suffer that much from any disappointed expectations.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #546 on: November 27, 2010, 12:08:51 AM »

Moon has the good taste not to try to hide its 2001 influence -- and then takes the "lonely guy in space with a computer that speaks in a monotone" premise and moves in a completely different direction with it.

Everything about this movie is great.  The script, the direction, and Rockwell's performance as the only person onscreen for most of the movie.

(Okay, it's way too heavy on the blue/orange.  But other than THAT everything about the movie is great.)
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #547 on: November 27, 2010, 07:41:57 AM »

Kind of a downer though!
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #548 on: November 27, 2010, 08:48:10 PM »

I liked that they didn't really play any games with presenting the [spoiler]other Sam Rockwell.  Like "Is he real, is he just crazy," whatever.[/spoiler]  They sort of just lay it out there so they can spend more time having fun exploring the idea.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #549 on: November 27, 2010, 11:49:54 PM »



Daybreakers is just the right combination of ridiculously schlocky and serious business to be a perfect movie.  Having Sam Neill and Willem Dafoe in top form certainly doesn't hurt.  A+++ would recommend again.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #550 on: November 28, 2010, 12:07:20 AM »

I watched Frozen tonight.  This was not a wise decision.  I'm not sure what I was expecting, I guess maybe a more jokey, goofy horror approach, but not really.  They do what most horror/disaster films don't usually bother with, making the characters mildly likable, or at least relatable enough that you're completely repulsed later on when stuff starts happening. 

If they'd been douchebags or something, it might be possible to take some perverse pleasure in seeing, say, [spoiler]a guy falling, snapping the bones out of both of his legs, then sobbing for like an hour until wolves finally show up and eat him alive.  It definitely hit that point where you realize "This isn't fun.  Why am I watching this?"[/spoiler]

It's kind of cute that one of the actors played Iceman in X-Men, and they get all winky meta referencing Open Water, but it stops being cute really quick and sort of turns into gruel.

If Les Stroud had been there, he'd have fashioned some sort of parachute out of the skin of the most annoying person and rode that sucker majestically down to the bottom of the mountain.

Oh, Les Stroud.  I need your calm, Canadian comfort now.   :;_;:
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #551 on: December 12, 2010, 01:24:47 PM »

The Legend Of the Guardians: Owls Of The Unnecessarily Long Name is a movie about holy shit you guys OWLS with an afterthought of a plot. The characters and story are instantly forgettable, but the whole film is really damned gorgeous. It loses points for the stupid pop song smack dab in the middle of the film, though (Owl City! Because it's... well, you get it).

I can't help but wish this technology would be put to use making a Silverwing or Redwall movie. I would kill for that.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #552 on: December 13, 2010, 11:07:04 AM »

I am trying to watch The Other Guys but it just views like a really watered down version of Hot Fuzz without any subtlety.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #553 on: December 16, 2010, 07:23:43 PM »

I don't know why I buy blu-ray of anything but Pixar movies. Pixar movies are the reason to own something that plays Blu-rays. Anything else is a complete waste.

(Watching Inception on Blu-ray reminded me of this point today)
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #554 on: December 16, 2010, 07:26:54 PM »

300 looked pretty good on Blu-Ray.  And The Last Airbender, oddly enough.

It really depends on how much time you've spent calibrating your set.  In my case, you could measure it in man-weeks.  And I have a crappy set.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #555 on: December 16, 2010, 07:32:16 PM »

Hmm, I guess it's about time I properly calibrate the thing. Is there a suggested DVD or Blu-ray to do it? I see there's a lot of calibration tools on Amazon.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #556 on: December 16, 2010, 07:49:54 PM »

No, fuck those.  They give you "accurate" pictures but it turns out most movies are made these days with the understanding that both home and theater displays are generally calibrated to look like they're shop demos, so they end up looking really brown.

Just get a good collection of photos you like and go through each setting on each one, eyeballing your way through it like an eye exam ("Does this look better, or worse?  How about now... better, or worse?")
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #557 on: December 16, 2010, 08:49:03 PM »

Coraline, Dark City, The Dark Knight, Ghostbusters, Scott Pilgrim and The Wizard of Oz all look amazing on blu-ray.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #558 on: December 16, 2010, 08:50:36 PM »

Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal is.  When getting stuff for watching on my monitor I prefer 1080p or 720p to standard def stuff.  I'm not sure why this would be different on televisions.

Although, if it starts doing that doubling of frames thing that they do in stores that makes everything look like a 70s era Doctor Who, that is balls.

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #559 on: December 16, 2010, 08:57:28 PM »

I think that's because they're using component cables, instead of HDMI. At least, that was the only cause I could figure out when I worked at Walmart, and we had that problem.
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